Keanu Reeves Has a Samurai Sword in the John Wick: Chapter 3 Trailer

When the Founding Fathers convened in Independence Hall deep in the heart of Philadelphia to begin the work of drafting the Constitution, they had a vision for these United States: a nation founded on principles of justice and equality, a country full of vibrant cities and sprawling countrysides, a place where John Wick can knock a goon's teeth out with a book, ride a horse through the city of New York, and have a samurai sword fight while riding a motorcycle at full speed on the George Washington Bridge.

If you haven't given the John Wick movies a shot yet, that's cool. The world is a mess, and you're busy. But as suggested above, there's some stuff going on in this trailer for John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum trailer that you should know about. And if you find that intriguing, well, there are two whole movies full of that sort of stuff waiting for you. The John Wick films are glorious, violent fun with some of the cleanest, most ostentatious neon-lit action sequences in modern cinema, all set in a weird version of our world where just about everyone is either an assassin or in the assassin-services industry. It is wild.

Parabellum—which is, by the way, the name of a kind of gun, derived from the Latin phrase si vis pacem, para bellum ("if you want peace, prepare for war")—takes place immediately after the ending of John Wick: Chapter 2, where John finds himself out in the cold, with the order of assassins he belongs to about to declare open season on him. This makes the appeal of Chapter 3 very clear: How is John Wick going to make it out of New York alive when just about everybody in it wants to kill him? Ever microwave fish in the office kitchen? It's like that.